At my child’s high school, an A is given the same value when calculating GPA as an A+ (or an A-), so for example a candidate with straight A- scores would have the same GPA as someone with straight A+ scores. My question relates to the value that college admissions representatives – particularly at the most competitive of schools – give to seeing a string of A pluses on a student’s transcript.
My guess: since many schools do not award A+'s, in order to compare 2 applicants from different schools, admissions would weigh an A+ the equivalent of an A. Certainly for the UC’s, which strip all + and -, that would be the case.
At the end, it depends on your school profile/report. It does not mean much if many students got A+ anyway.
Also if your child is getting A+'s, their teachers will know that and it will reflect in their recommendation letters.
“Run your own race” is what we like to say.
I guess part of what I’m asking is: Do most of the application reviewers at colleges see the actual transcript (and could thus potentially be influenced by the presence of A+ and A- scores), or do they only see a sanitized report that is created by their school upon parsing the transcript?